Novell Is Not SCO

Opinion: Wake up and smell the coffee, Novell is not anti-Linux. (Linux-Watch)

Novell is not SCO. Novell is not the great anti-GPL. Get over it.
Im getting a little tired of the constant Novell-bashing. Do I think that Novell made a smart long term move by partnering up with Microsoft? No, I dont.

For the record, the only software company that I can think of that has ever partnered with Microsoft and done well is Citrix Systems. And, they did it by acting as if they were a branch of Microsoft.

That is not, I repeat not, the case with Novell.
What Novell is doing is a smart, short-term move. Novell makes a great Linux, but its not been making great gains to go with it.
Its investors, for those of you who know more about open-source licenses than business, have been very unhappy. How unhappy? They got the CEO and CFO booted earlier this year.
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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is editor at large for Ziff Davis Enterprise. Prior to becoming a technology journalist, Vaughan-Nichols worked at NASA and the Department of Defense on numerous major technological projects. Since then, he's focused on covering the technology and business issues that make a real difference to the people in the industry.